Share Your Blogging Workspace

I share a picture of my desk at home and talk a little bit about workspaces and where we tend to do our blogging.

Get Invited! - 4 Ways to Obtain Access to Beta Sites

.A number of online services launch in Beta and require an invitation to access them. Here are four ways to obtain a coveted invite

Twitter - if you have a large enough following you can request invites. I have given and received beta invitations via Twitter
Invite Room on Friendfeed - Mark Krysnky created an [...]

MyJugaad.in - Create an Online Slideshow from RSS

Lo-fi librarian mentioned MyJugaad.in, which is a tool to create an online slideshow of webpages. You can use any RSS feed, popular sources such as google news, a tag on del.icio.us, or a list of sites.

It seems as if all my projects recently involve using the Green Tweeter data but since the data is [...]

Wordle - Generate Word Clouds from Text, RSS, and del.icio.us

Wordle is an online java based utility used to generate word clouds from text. The word could can be created from a block of text that you input, as RSS feed and from the tags used in a del.icio.us account.
The word clouds can not be saved to your computer but can be saved to [...]

Monitoring My Bandwidth Usage for One Week

A number of ISP’s, most notably cable internet providers such as Time Warner, Comcast and AT&T, are moving to a metered access model where the customer pays for Internet access based on usage. Personally, I don’t think this is a bad idea as we pay for metered access for other utilities such as electricity [...]

Beat the Heat With Online Programming

It’s been 97F + here in Philadelphia. Are you like me and too hot to go outside or even move from your computer? Well, then here’s a list of online shows that might help. Maybe you will enjoy them too.
Get Informed

Bill Moyers Journal - This is a weekly program that contains [...]

Joost - What’s Playing Online

Joost is a service that provides tv over the internet. It is for Windows and Mac and requires a broadband internet connection and software that must be downloaded. I first read it about a year ago when Lifehacker posted a review of the service. I took a look at it but [...]